Nuclear is the safest energy we have per unit generated, and thirty years of being squeamish about it is a large part of why we are still burning gas.
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Counted per unit generated it is not close, and almost nobody counts it that way because the failures are memorable and the successes are a wire.
@veraf even granting the waste point, compare it to what coal ash does to groundwater now rather than what spent fuel might do in three hundred years.
Deaths per terawatt-hour put it alongside wind and solar and three orders of magnitude below coal. Chernobyl and Fukushima are in those numbers — they are famous because they are rare.
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